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. PASTENER SOCKET.

No. 570,069 Patented Oct. 27, 1896.

JOI'IN DAVID STIROKLER, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR OF ONE- IIALF 'IO EBENFJZER FRANCIS BUMPUS, OF SAME PLACE.

FASTENER-SOCKET.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N o. 570,069, dated October 27, 1896. Application filed September 19, 1895. Serial No. 562,981. (No model.)

To all whom, t may concern,.-

Beit known that I, JOHN DAVID STIRCKLER, of Boston, in the county of Suffolk and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Fastener-Sockets, of

which the following is a specification.

Referring to the accompanying drawings, Figure l is a plan, and Fig. 2 an edge, View of the blank from which the socket of my 1o improved fastener is made. Figj is a top plan view, Fig. 4 a side elevation, and Fig. 5 a bottom plan view, of a socket formed by cutting the blank shown in Figs. l and 2, these views being enlarged for greater clearness. Fig. 6 shows the exterior spring detached. Fig. 7 shows a section of the socket and spring assembled and on a large scale. Fig. 8 is a sectional view, enlarged, showing the fastener and socket (with a button atzo tached) and the fastener-stud, each secured to stock in cooperative position. Figs. 9 and 10 show a modication in which the spring-ring is applied to a flanged eyelet forming part of a fastener.

2 5 The object of my invention is to produce a cheap and at the same time a strong and durable fastener-socket for the reception of a detachable stud; and myinvention consists, mainly, in the combination of a fastner-socket 3d having at its mouth a slit wall and below its mouth a neck surrounded by an exterior spring-ring, and having at its outer end above the spring-ring an extension for attachment of stock above the spring-ring.

3 5 In the drawings illustrating the principle of my invention and the best mode now known to me of applying that principle, a is the preferred form of blank from which the fastener-socket b is formed, (by cuppin g opera- 4o tions readily understood by all skilled in the Y art without particular description,) and Z9 are the marginal slits which permit the cup to yield at its edge b2 for the reception of the stud d when it is inserted, the head d of the stud being a little larger than the mouth of the cup,`as will be readily understood by all skilled in the art. Socket l? is formed with a neck b3, and the margin b4 preferably has a plurality of slits b', as shown, although a 5o single slit will answer in some cases. The

body or shank b5 of the socket is slightly enlarged below neck b3 to accommodate the slightly-enlarged head CZ of the stud d, and is extended above or beyond the spring-ring for connection with stock h above or beyond the spring-ring. The proper resiliency is given to the mouth b2 of my new socket (Whatever the details of its construction, which may be varied, if desired) by the exterior springring f, preferably formed of a section or piece 6o of spring-wire, as shown. The spring-ring is of an interior diameter proper to make it nicely lit and hug the neck b3, whereby it is kept permanently in place; and this combination of a fastener-socket, with an exterior spring-rin g, is wholly new with me and results in a very simple and durable fastener-socket, the spring-rings fand sockets b being readily assembled by hand or by machines, as desired. Socket b is readily adapted to carry 7o a button or to be otherwise secured to stock or fabric by means of a central hole h6, which receives a post g or the like, passed through the stock and upset Within the socket at g, as will be readily understood by all skilled in the art; but my new socket may be attached to the stock in any other manner, as by sewing or by an eyelet, without departure from my invention.

I'Ieretofore the spring members or portions 8o of sockets relied on to receive and hold the detachable stud have become set or lost their resiliency after use. My new exterior springring keeps the stud-receiving parts of the socket in proper position and is a permanently resilient backing therefor, and this exterior spring-ring is the salient feature of my improved socket.

In Figs. 9 and l0, showing a modication, my new exterior spring-ring is applied to a 9o split eyelet and serves to hold the spring members thereof in permanently-resilient condition.

l. The herein-described combination with a slit socket having a neck; a spring-ring around said neck; and an extension beyond vthe ring; of a lianged post secured to said extension; and stock secured between said ring and flanged post.

2. The herein-described combination of a slit socket having a neck reduced in diameter IOO to form t ring-seat, and having beyond the name tothis specification, in the presence of ring-seat a. converged, apertnred extension, two subserxblng Witnesses, on this 14th davy 1.o with a post entered in said aperture and npof September, A. D. 1895.

set Within the Converged extension of the i Y T 1 1 v 1 5 socket; said post being formed with a ange JOHN DAX ID Sl IRCILRR" at its outer end and having zt body portion be- Vtnesses: tween said socket extension and sa-id Hnge. EDWARD S. BEACH,

In testimony whereof I have signed my A. I. CRAWFORD. 

